Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick has defined why there are not any plans to launch a PC model of Grand Theft Auto 6 on November 19, alongside the PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S variations.
Talking with Bloomberg on the Interactive Innovation Convention in Las Vegas final week, Zelnick was requested concerning the rising significance of the PC marketplace for a few of Take-Two‘s sequence.
Zelnick defined that when he began at Take-Two in 2007, sequence like NBA 2K solely offered round 5% of their whole gross sales on PC, whereas these days “with regard to an enormous title, PC might be 45%, 50% of the gross sales”.
Zelnick was then requested why, if that is so, the choice was made to not launch Grand Theft Auto 6 on PC on day one. He replied that Rockstar‘s purpose has at all times been to serve the “core client” with its titles, earlier than specializing in issues like PC ports.
“Rockstar at all times begins on console as a result of I feel with regard to a launch like that you simply’re judged by serving the core,” he defined. “Like, actually serving the core client. In case your core client isn’t there, in the event that they’re not served first and finest, you type of don’t hit your different customers.”
Requested whether or not the sport had a console exclusivity interval because of any advertising and marketing offers with Sony, Zelnick mentioned this wasn’t the case, stressing: “No. I imply, traditionally Rockstar’s gone to console first.”
As Zelnick says, Rockstar has a historical past of releasing its video games on console first, then bringing them to PC at a later date, usually years down the road.
Grand Theft Auto 5 was launched on PS3 and Xbox 360 in September 2013, with PS4 and Xbox One ports in November 2014, however didn’t come to PC till April 2015.
Equally, Grand Theft Auto 4 got here to PC eight months after console, whereas LA Noire got here six months later. Purple Lifeless Redemption 2 additionally had a 13-month hole between console and PC launch.
The most important hole, nevertheless, was for the unique Purple Lifeless Redemption, which solely arrived on PC in October 2024, some 14 years after it was initially launched on consoles.
